Author: Petech, Luciano.
Title: China and Tibet in the early XVIIIth century. History of the establishment of Chinese protectorate in Tibet. 2nd rev. edition.
Description: Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1972. [VIII],309 pp. 2 fold. b./w. maps of Tibet & China. Orig. softcover (printed wrappers). 8vo. (Monographies du T'oung Pao, Monographie I). - As new ! Bottom of pages not yet trimmed (as issued).Very rare original copy. Second revised edition of the first edition of 1950. - - Luciano Petech (8 June 1914, Trieste - 29 September 2010, Rome) was an Italian scholar of Himalayan history and the early relations between Tibet, Nepal and Italy. He was Chair of History of Eastern Asia at the University of Rome from 1955 to 1984. He was a student of the Italian explorer, academic, and scholar Giuseppe Tucci. - - Copy from the library of Willem (“Wim”) van Spengen (1949 - 2013). His owner's is written on the half-title. - - Wim van Spengen was a cultural geographer who served as a Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam from 1985 to 2003. He was a leading figure in scholarship of Tibetan geography, socioeconomics, and history.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia China Tibet Himalaya Etnografie Azië